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zarataz (zarataz) wrote in silverage,
@ 2011-08-21 16:42:00

Entry tags:

!log, remus lupin, zatanna zatara

Who: Remus and Zatanna
What: Show tickets in exchange for helping her out with her boggart problem
When: Sunday night
Where: CBS Studios
Warnings: Nada!

Zee smiled brightly at the crowds of people applauding her from their seats in the audience. It was taking them forever to let her off the stage and she knew that Ed would get tetchy if she took up too much time in the limelight past her allotted ten minute act. She held up her hands and took one more bow before beginning her slow backing off the stage. As was customary Zee paused to plant a kiss on Ed's cheek, thanking him for having her on yet again, and then passed another cheeky smile and wave to the audience. "Thank you and good night, everybody!" Crossing her fishnetted legs, Zee blew a kiss to the crowd and muttered behind her hand, "Raeppasid ot ym gnisserd moor. Ekoms stceffe!"

Her dressing room greeted her with a welcome silence.

With a loud breath, Zee collapsed into the plush, velvety chair that sat in front of her changing screen. The show hadn't gone horribly that night, but she was an utter perfectionist and couldn't help going through every minor thing that had gone wrong. To be perfectly honest, they had been minor, but she was still going to curse the fact that her rabbit had been a little too sedated to be stage ready. These things happened when one was working with 1960s tranquilizers. But hell, at least PETA didn't exist. That would have been bad.

She reached to the side, picking up a ribbon so that she could pull her hair up off her neck into a pony tail. "Eight o'clock," she mumbled under her breath. Could she go home and take a bath now? Something with bubbles in the ancient, clawfootted tub she'd been using since she'd been a child. Zee closed her eyes thinking about it and decided to take just give herself a moment complete, and total silence before--

Knock, knock.

Zee opened one eye. "What?"

"Your guest here to see you, Miss. Zatara!" What? She thought, both eyes opening now. She had guests? No, that couldn't be right-- the staff at the Ed Sullivan show knew that she hated to be bothered directly before or after performances and she'd never had a problem with enforcing that desire. "A Remus Lupin for you?" The name tumbled clumsily over the staff woman's tongue but it gave Zatanna the information and memory she needed. Remus Lupin, the magical teenager who'd helped her with her boggart problem. The magical teenager she'd decided to keep an eye on because Zatanna, in general, simply didn't trust magical teenagers to always make the proper decisions, no matter what their intentions.

Of course now she remembered giving him tickets to the show as thanks for dealing with her boggart issue and telling him to come say hello back stage. "Gnikrow setholc ffo." Zee pushed up off her chair and pulled her robe down from where it hung on the edge of her changing screen. Teenaged boys (usually her cousin, Zachary) always seemed to catch her at her worst.

"Come in!" she called.

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tufty
2011-08-25 02:24 pm UTC (link)

"Your father must be proud," Remus said lightly. It was always nice if a daughter or son would take after their father. Thinking about it instantly shifted his thoughts to his friend's son and he found himself wondering what could happen in the future...

It came and went just as quickly. "You must have learned everything from him. Even those pocket dimensions you've sent the boggarts to. Honestly, that's some complicated magic you do there." He wondered if maybe he could open one himself but ahh, such fancy thoughts were likely not workable.

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zarataz
2011-08-27 11:18 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, it's not that hard. A lot of this stuff was enchanted by my father," Zatanna admitted with a shrug. "But with the way my magic works... I do have to practice, but making these things become old hat after awhile-- no pun intended." She felt around over her shoulder until her hand gripped on the brim of one of her many top hats. This one, made from beaver skin, had a bit of a sheen to it. She leaned forward and handed it to Remus.

"Stick your hand in. It's bigger on the inside," she winked. "You might bump into Chanel, but don't worry. Friendliest rabbit ever." The pocket dimension allowed her to, among other things, perform the famed rabbit out of a hat trick without a cloth covering the table she worked on. Unlike other magicians, her trick actually left the crowds wondering how she'd done it.

Zee leaned back. "I have one inside a chest that's just a pit with chains and alligators. I call it the Land of Ex-Boyfriends."

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tufty
2011-08-28 04:59 am UTC (link)

"That is a very creative name," Remus said while the entirety of his arm was submerged into the hat that Zatanna had offered. "I feel sorry for your past boyfriends. We do have a similar charm back home, though: the Undetectable Extension Charm," as he said this, he began to pull his arm back, "It works very much like this. It is also what we use to keep our wands in our pockets, among many others." And out popped from the hat, a rabbit.

"When you called them your pocket dimensions, though," he went on as he slipped Chanel back inside its hat, the cavity devouring his entire arm again, "I thought that you'd meant that there were worlds within them...spaces where you can walk inside." He was embarrassed to admit that he thought some of them might have a village inside them. "Much like a portal of sorts to another...well, dimension," he finished as he drew his arm back and out the hat. "I didn't realise that you'd meant extra spaces for objects all along..."

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